ABOUT
Welcome. YOU ARE HERE. And I am so glad you have arrived. The YOU ARE HERE blog exists to support your intention to be present to your life. By encouraging the […]
Entries by Katherine
YOU ARE HERE
And I am so glad you have arrived. All of the writing in this blog exists to support your intention to be present to your life. By encouraging the practice of mindfulness and the ways to foster its arrival, we gain access […]
PUTTING YOUR STORY DOWN
For some time now, my three children (20-somethings) share this little mantra with me, often accompanied by a big grin. It goes like this: “Just do you, Mom!” Whether that means wearing a funky flowered hat, leading a guided meditation on the quad of a local campus, or making friends in line at the RMV, […]
TEA SERVICE
When my three children were very young, they had the great privilege of sharing tea with their maternal great-grandmother twice a month. Grannie was a force of nature, wearing pumps and skirts well into her 80’s and she could deftly navigate the rickety basement stairs in her 1920’s bungalow. She and my grandfather raised their […]
NOTICING
Have you ever noticed that a lot of the time you are just not noticing? For instance, you are driving to the grocery store or to work (both of which you have done a million times), and not remembering when you arrive how you got there. Just traveling on auto pilot, or absorbed in a […]
FOLLOWING YOUR INTUITION
This summer, I went out to Northern California to attend a silent retreat for a week at the Spirit Rock Center. There was a lot of guffawing from friends and family back East, about me being silent for a whole week. I am a talker! A shamelessly fast talking flamboyant one at that….at times. But […]
SCIENCE AS A SPIRITUAL PRACTICE
It is human to crave certainty. Especially as people find themselves feeling less and less safe in a world where senseless violence occurs randomly, indiscriminately. People seek out messages that promise salvation, that give unwavering answers to their ultimate questions of the whys and hows and meanings of life. With underlying fear serving as a […]
The Gift of your Gaze: Do Not Turn Away
To those of you that have written over the past week asking me to respond to the horrific tragedy in Newtown, CT, I had no words. Today, all I can give you is what’s in my heart this morning. It seems impossible to sing songs of Christmas cheer or hold unsullied the hope of new […]
MORE PETER PAN PLEASE
In this summer of Batman and Spiderman, of taking down the bad guys while sporting a costume with coordinating tights; I’m putting in my two cents for Peter Pan. No, it’s not his leafy green tunic and tights, his Robin Hood cap, or devil-may care attitude. If this were a fashion contest, Peter definitely would […]
